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" If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star. "
Ian Mckellen
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" Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really. "
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" I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out. "
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" Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them. "
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" Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played. "
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" I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.' "
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" I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on. "
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" I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached. "
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" There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud. "
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" I love working in New York. "
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" The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses. "
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" I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic. "
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" There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore. "
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" I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them. "
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" There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay. "
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" The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them. "
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" 'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics. "
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" Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic. "
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" I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly. "
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" You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all. "
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" I've always had very catholic tastes. "
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" What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you? "
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" The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with. "
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" When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers. "
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" I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims. "
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" I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round. "
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" My own death threats have declined considerably. "
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" The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living. "
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" I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate. "
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